Doctoral

Integration

The courses with their domain specific origin are differently positioned to develop skills in understanding and analysing as well as creating and applying.• Understanding and analysing are addressed by discussing the theoretical foundations of the domains and fundamental methods.• Creating and applying are developed by theory building and developing tools to analyse specific social and economic phenomena.

The following table indicates which skills are developed in the different courses. The main skills are highlighted and the table is not meant to be complete, but illustrative. For the specific content of each individual course please refer to the individual syllabus.

Corresponding Courses

Skill Sets

Understand & Analyze

· Multivariate Analysis

· Entrepreneurship & Innovation Management

· Management Theories

· Business Process Management & Innovation

· Social Network Analysis·

Create & Apply

· Qualitative Research Methods & Theory Building

· Design Science

· Statistical Learning & Analytics

· Social Network Analysis

· Quantitative Research Methods & Design and Analysis of Experiments

Research Domain Integration:The integration of the three research domains is implemented on the course level. This integration enables students to achieve the necessary in depth knowledge about their research domain while learning about related domains to formulate creative and novel research questions.

The following table indicates the connection of topics covered in the courses with the three research domains. It is a collection of topics that is not meant to be complete, but illustrative. For the specific content of each individual course please refer to the individual syllabus.

Courses

IS

TIM

Social Computing

MGT718 MULTIVARIATE

Data visualization

SEM

MDS

MGT719 QUANT METH

Field survey design

Measurement theory

Experimental design

MGT721 QUAL METH

Action research design

Case study Design

Text analysis (based on grounded theory)

MGT711 ENTREPRENEUR & INNOVATION

Business models (e-business)

Technology diffusion

Opportunity, technology strategy

Structural hole theory

Open source

MGT726 DESIGN SCIENCE

Design science (Hevner)

Diffusion models

Models of preferential attachment

MGT787 STAT LRNING

Classification methods (data mining)

Time series

Relational learning (Bayesian & Markovian models)

MIS722 BPM

Structuration theory

Collaboration theory

Process design

MGT753 MGT THEORIES

Theory of planned behavior

Institutional theory

Social network theory

MGT735 ECON FOUND

Value of information

Coalitional games

Collective action

MGT786 SOC NETWORK

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At the Howe School of Technology Management, we take advantage of our small size to deliver two distinctive benefits: personalized attention and a curriculum customized to fit your needs. You can expect to get more time interacting with faculty members than you would get in most other Ph.D. environments.